Wednesday, April 13, 2005

I was hoping a could show to my husband the wierd thing I observed about Gmail but I forgot what my password is. I've tried to enter those I thought were the ones I used but I kept on getting error messages.

Anyway, unfortunate for me. As promised, I will try to make this post a little longer to make up. So... what do I tell you. Ah.. do you know that the Islands in Anilao Batangas have beautiful seashores? Yes, they have. And mind you, their shores are beaming with white sand. We had a great time touring the different Islands there. We stayed in Tingloy Island by the way where we were welcomed so well. People there are really very warm and hospitable. We were indeed overwhelmed by their kindness and hospitality. To reach the place, we took a bus going to Batangas (Pier) City. Fare I think was Php160 something. Really can't recall because we swing by Lipa first to fetch our cousins. Just tell the conductor you will go down in "Diversion". In the Diversion just look for the jeep going to Anilao pier. From the pier, we took a boat going to Tingloy. The jeep fare was Php22.00 while we paid Php27.00 each for the boat ride going to the Tingloy island. Boat trips are scheduled. We took that which will leave at 1:30 pm.

We were fortunate because we have company who know the place and the barangay officials of the place. We were also given discounted rates in the food, hired boat to tour the other islands, and the house were we slept.

What I liked very much about the place was the quiteness of the surrounding and the cool & fresh seabreeze. I would say the place is still not exploited. In fact, there were no other tourists until 9 am. We were able to enjoy the whole stretch of about 300 meters of shoreline and studied closely the enchanting mountenous rocks. According to our friend, who know the place, its because still very few know about the island. There were areas in the shoreline however covered by dead corals so its hard to walk without footwear. It's also spooky to go farther from the shore because such is already covered by yellowish seagrasses. I saw a seasnake traversing the grasses so i got scared.

Indeed if you are looking for a quite, unexploited beach I strongly recommend Tingloy Island in Anilao. Before I forgot, remember the Teleserye "marina"? Beautiful beach right? That's in tingloy.

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